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I was doing maintenance in the photo archives yesterday and took a second look at some photos from Damen and from Picton Terminals. Since I know that Sheri Lynn S (SLS) arrived in Canada in Montreal in late fall, this has to be a photo of it being loaded onto the ship in Shanghai after traveling via the Yangtze from the shipyard in Changde, Hunan in China. Given that, the tugs in the background could now be scattered all over the world.
This photo shows the boat being secured to the deck,again in Shanghai.
After the ocean voyage between the photo above, SLS arrives in a port at the end of her voyage, and that port has to be
Montreal, given the blue tugboat here, Ocean Georgie Bain.
And now for a few photos from her current habitat on the NE corner of Lake Ontario, SLS breaks ice, sometimes . . .
enabling the cement ship to dock.
In fact, this time of year, ice breaking is her main activity.
Many thanks to Damen and Picton Terminals for these photos.
A picture is worth a thousand words, even if the picture is a video still and grainy. This picture launched a 1000 (actually about 1300) words, which you can read in the embedded link at the end of this post.
So, just the basics will be in this post, since the story is in the link.
It was cold and dark in early December when Sheri Lynn S cracked some new ice in departing from the dock in Picton ON,
heading into Picton Bay
to meet this ship . . . delivering steel from Korea.
Communications describe how the ship intends to dock, and
Sheri Lynn S accommodates the plan, crew on the tug here prepare to send a line up to the crew on the ship.
Once the ship Lake Erie is secure, the tug heads into the frozen area of the Bay
to tie up until the next job.
Here are some shots on Picton Terminals last summer.
Click here for the article I did on the boat, crew, and operation.
Many thanks to Picton Terminals for assistance. All photos except the video still at the beginning by Will Van Dorp, who will have additional news from Picton soon.
A friend who works on the Great Lakes sent me these next two photos recently. When I saw Anglian Lady in the foreground, my first thought was that I’d seen her myself but she looked somehow different. More on that later.
Anglian Lady was Thornycraft built and launched in Southampton UK as Hamtun, a 132′ x 31′ steam tug that operated for the company now known as Red Funnel. From there, it was sold to interests in Belgium and then back in England before being purchased by Purvis Marine of Sault Ste. Marie.
But the tugboat I recalled was not Anglian Lady. It was another distinctive tug by Purvis Marine below.
I was thrilled back in September 2017 when I got out in front of it here. Location? Some clues are the structures beyond the bow and the stern of this tug.
Avenger IV is the tug I recalled. She’s from Cochrane 1962, a former steam tug, 120′ x 30′.
The location? This is a dozen miles east of the Mackinac Bridge.
The PML website can be found here.
Many thanks to the Great Lakes mariner for the first two photos and for getting me to have a second look at Purvis Marine.
And the G-tugs in the background of the top photo likely include Minnesota and North Dakota.
If my post-entitling were consistent, this would be the twelfth post with pics from Mike. Of course, if it were differently consistent, this would be Lois M 4. Yes, 4 because of this post which would be Thanks to Jake . . . and a number. OK, I’ll stop with all the meta-commentary.
Nevertheless, Lois M is still in town, hibernating . . . you might say, waiting not so much for spring as for completion of the work on her barge.
To highlight her size . . . she ‘s 108′ x 35′ x 18’ and propelled by 4800 hp.
To quote the GLtugs site, she’s a “z-drive tug was built in 1991 by Matsuura Tekko Zosen of Higashino, Japan as the Lambert for Cleveland Cliffs-Robe River Iron in Australia.”
Note the WTC 1 beyond the stern deck and
the Empire State Building and Williamsburg Bridge beyond her here.
Many thanks, Mike.
Guess the vessel cut off to the right?
The tug is Lois M, on hold in Brooklyn for about a month already.
It turns out she came to GMD with barge Tobias for a haircut and a shave, and maybe some new paint.
After the shipyard work, Lois M and Tobias might be headed across the pond ….
Given the size of the graving dock, Tobias is a huge barge.
Many thanks to Mike Abegg for these photos.
And that bowsprit . . . it belongs to Clipper City.
Whenever I’ve seen this vessel, I had associations with a huge river in a big country.
These blue-white designs, though, didn’t conjure up that tropical river, yet they were strangely familiar.
The “upside-down V” didn’t initially strike me a Greek letter lambda either.
Later I started looking differently to try to figure out why that Greek frieze design looked familiar. I’ve only been in Greece once and that was almost half a lifetime ago. Now it strikes me as strange that I didn’t think of the huge multinational e-commerce and tech company, the one who created a zillionaire.
Amazon Beauty was once Greek-flagged, but it’s not any more. Now it appears to be shuttling some product between Point Tupper NS and Linden NJ.
Have you figured out the blue/white pattern and why it might be familiar?
Click here for the New York coffee cup, the ubiquitous vessel for coffee at one time, and now eclipsed by DD and Starbucks.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, who send greetings to the photographer up in Point Tupper, who will get photos when she arrives.
An unusual profile sailed into the Narrows recently, and what I read says she’s powered by Niigata engines. Anyone know much about these engines? The company also builds railroad equipment.
I assumed she’d be in under cover of darkness, but towing a 400′ x 100′ deck barge, she made slow time along the south side of Long Island.
I’m not sure I understand the impact of cold on my camera, but I got these photos from more than half a mile off.
After towing barge Tobias in on the wire, she rounded up in Stapleton and made up alongside. Eventually, she got assistance and brought the barge into the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
For more info on Lois M, check here out here and here.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
I’ll start with a photo I took in Toronto in September. I could read that it was called Coastal Titan, but I thought it was a floating dry dock confined to Toronto. Then in October I saw a photo Marc had taken in July downstream of Montreal, showing
… the same Coastal Titan, pushed by what seemed an intriguingly-named but undersized Salvage Monarch. And it’s not until today that I search the history of this unusual vessel. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine it was once a US-flagged heavy lift vessel named John Henry. Click here for more of the history of this 1978 heavy lift ship and sister–Paul Bunyan–built by Peterson Builders in Sturgeon Bay WI. Coastal Titan is the survivor story here.
I believe Paul Bunyan, then James McHenry, was scrapped in 2015; for a photo, see page 8 here.
Marc also caught Eda (ex-Cedarglen) on her way to be scrapped at Aliaga, with Ocean Echo II on stern and
VB Hispania (2011 and Mangalia, Romania) on the bow.
Click here for previous photos by Marc, to whom I’m grateful for these photos that led me to the intriguing story of Coastal Titan.
Daylight hours are getting very short, reiterating summer 2019 is no more, but I’ve still got photos left from gallivants of warmer and brighter days this year, like this one of a
downbound Thunder Bay passing Rock Island Light, once legitimately tended by an erstwhile pirate William Johnston.
Later as we continued towards Lake Onrario, we followed Atlantic Huron, an ore boat we seem to have encountered frequently this season, here leaving Carleton Island to port and
Wolfe to starboard.
Soon after passing Tibbetts Point Light, we entered the NE corner of
Ontario. By the way, the hostel beds previously available at Tibbetts Light will soon be no more.
And as Atlantic Huron disappeared in the distance, we passed John D. Leitch,
passing the light at Charity Shoal, a light over an impact crater.
I love that steering pole.
Then Leitch entered the funnel, leaving Wolfe Island to port and downbound waters become the Saint Lawrence.
All photos from a few warmer months back by Will Van Dorp.
. . . starting with Canadian government boats, Coast Guard vessels and CCGS-to-be. Tor Viking is the Davie Shipyard near Quebec City in Lévis, where she’ll be transformed into CCGS Vincent Massey, a medium class icebreaker, following the wakes of sister ships into CCGS Molly Kool and CCGS Jean Goodwill. Another CCGS, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, recently left Labrador for the long trip to British Columbia.
CCGS Sipu Muin has appeared here before with photos from her first pass. Two days later she flew by even closer, determined to be seen. That gull off her starboard looks spooked….
In the distance with the large green dome, that’s Canada’s largest church.
How about a US vessel–USS Indianapolis LCS-17–commissioned in Indiana less than a month ago, here transiting Quebec near the downstream end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway? Here are my previous photos of LCS models . . . and others’ photos are here.
And let’s conclude with local sixth boro NYPD marine crew monitoring something
on a red channel marker in the lower portion of the Upper Bay yesterday.
The USS Indianapolis photo comes with permission from Marc Piché, whose photos have appeared here previously.
All other photos by Will Van Dorp, who posted about NYPD boats previously here.
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